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The theatre of women

by: Amman, Jost, 1539-1591; Aspland, Alfred, 1815-1880; Modius, François, 1556-1597; Feyerabend, Sigmund, 1528-1590

Publication date: 1872

Topics: Costume

Publisher: Manchester, For the Holbein society by A. Brothers; [etc., etc.]

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Item Size: 260.7M

Facsimile reprint of the Latin edition of the "Frauentrachtenbuch" (Frankfurt, 1586) with title: Gynaeceum, sive Theatrum mulierum, in quo praecipuarum omnium per Europam in primis, nationum, gentium, proulorumque...foemineos habitus videre est, artificiosissimis nunc primum figuris ... expressos a Iodoco Amano. Additis ad singulas figuras singulis octostichis Francisci Modii Burg. ... M.D.LXXXVI. Francoforti, impensis Sigismundi Feyrabendii

Added t.-p.: Gynaeceum; or, The theatre of women; wherein may be seen the female costumes of all the principal nations, tribes, and peoples of Europe [etc.]

"To the Most Serene Lady Isabella of Austria, queen of France" (Translation of Sigmund Feyerabend's "Epistola nuncupatoria", introductory to the Latin edition) p. [xxxiii]-xl

"List of Ammon's works": p. [xiii]-xxvl

"Index of illustrations": p. [xxvii]-xxxii